The Pulaski County Special School District has hired a director of elementary education and a director of secondary education to oversee principals and direct the implementation of Common Core standards, the new state curriculum standards being implemented in kindergarten through eighth-grade next school year. Both positions will report to Dr. Linda Remele, the District’s deputy superintendent and will assume their positions July 1, 2012.
Reminder: Tomorrow is not a staff development day as indicated on early versions of the 2011 – 2012 school calendar. All staff and students should report to school as usual.
TAYLOR ELEMENTARY Principal Jackie Smith was honored last Friday at the school in Jacksonville with a Patriot Award by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) in recognition of extraordinary support of her employee serving in the United States Navy Reserve.
Teresa Perkins, program coordinator of Simply Delicious Restaurant located at North Pulaski High School, has been selected as Arkansas’s Educator Excellence Award Winner for 2012 from the Education Foundation of the National Restaurant Association (NRAEF). The NRAEF sponsors ProStart, the restaurant management and culinary arts program students at NPHS participate and compete in. (They placed second this year in the Management Division and third in Culinary at the state competition.) Perkins will be honored at an awards ceremony during the National Restaurant Associations Annual Trade Show to be held in Chicago May 4 – 7.
On Friday, April 20, 2012 the Classified PPC voted to propose the attached Personnel Policies and propose no changes to Classified Salary Schedules for the 2012-2013 school year
Pulaski County Special School District
925 East Dixon Rd
Little Rock, AR 72206
501.490.2000